Who are we? 💸

Our mission is to get everyone investing. As the first challenger stockbroker to disrupt the £1.2 trillion UK retail investment market through our innovative apps, technology is at the heart of what we do. We bring simple, low-cost investing to everyone, removing traditional barriers to entry and democratising the world of investing. We are mobile first and our app enables users to buy and sell shares, ETFs and investment trusts, with no commission and low flat fees. 

We are scaling our team to Europe and Stockholm, Sweden will be the first location.We recently completed our Series B funding round bringing the total capital we raised to over £60m. We are only just getting started. We currently have over 850,000 customers in the UK and we’re scaling fast - in 2020, we added 250,000 users and so far in 2021 we have added over double that number!

Our team is currently just over 190 people in the UK and we are on track to double headcount year-on-year, as we look to support our growing user base and drive international expansion - we’re scaling across the world in London, Brisbane, Stockholm, and Vancouver to name a few.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with a desire to learn, collaborate and contribute to the technical advancement of Freetrade's platform. 

You will:

• Be comfortable throughout the end-to-end delivery of new features from design → release → post production with only a small amount of guidance from senior members of the team.

• Perform code reviews; follow, and improve upon, the standards and practices of the engineering team.

• Directly support the business as a contributor to our on-call team, responding to incidents in a prompt manner and escalating where necessary.

• Help to scale our rapidly growing engineering team by partaking in technical interviews of new members.

• Be eager to improve the development experience at Freetrade by enhancing development tools, testing, coverage and/or code structure.

About you:

Our open roles are for mid-level to senior Software Engineers at present

• Flexible with your tool selection and language with the curiosity to understand each area of our full stack environment.

• You're not afraid to seek new ways of working to make development more efficient across the company.

• You don’t see testing as just a problem for QA to solve.

• You thrive in a problem solving environment.

• Capable of working independently whilst collaborating with senior engineers when faced with new challenges.

We use serverless technologies such as Firestore, Cloud Composer, and Stackdriver, to build a reliable and performant platform. We use the real-time database, cloud functions and other features like pub/sub to provide a frictionless investment platform. 

This is a high visibility environment where you will make a direct positive impact on customer experience and the business. If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new product, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you

The whole interview process for this role can be found here - in short, we operate a 4-Step Process, including a talk with one of our Engineering Managers, a Coding Exercise, a System Design Task, and a Values interview to round things off.

Benefits as a Freetrader 👇

As a Freetrader, you’ll get to join an inclusive and determined group of people, supported by a range of Senior Leaders to support your career development. On top of that, you’ll also be eligible for the following benefits: 

• Stock Options 

• Discretionary company-wide Bonus

• Enhanced Pension 

• Enhanced Insurance 

• Personal Annual Learning Budget

• Freetrade Plus Account, with access to ISAs, SIPPs, and more!

You can check out more of our benefits here in more detai! 

What you can expect from us 🚀 

• A role within a global fast growing scaleup.

• The opportunity to build and work with a driven, qualified and ambitious team. 

• Being part in democratising the world of investing.

• Central located offices with all the amenities needed.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog.